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Originally Posted by Truth
For example, if you look at our hymnal and some of the young people's song book, there are a few songs that came from the Beatles. Now we know the LCs sang those songs in the 70s. The Beatles were still pretty popular then. Yet LSM didn't consider that worldly.
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Actually, they did. Not at first, but eventually they stopped using those songs. I recall a "word" about those songs while I was still in Dallas. Before I was married (in 79). Since then they slowly found alternate tunes in most cases.
It is possible that over the 25 year since I left, they may have brought some of them back. Or is this only in the GLA or other marginal or non-LSM groups? I have no idea.
In any case, I'm sure that the Budweiser jingle always raised eyebrows. I liked it, but I also had a kind of uncertainty about it.
Yet, it is interesting that some of the great "hymns of the faith" were words put to what were then bar songs. Since we don't know those songs as anything but hymns, we have no problem with them. But we can't tolerate more modern tunes with worldly origins. I recall that some years ago we went through the old supplement and dug up all the old pop songs from the 50s through the early 70s that were used for tunes. Beatles, Elvis, Tony Orlando, Simon and Garfunkel, Danny O'Keefe (Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues), Debbie Reynolds, the Carpenters, the Eagles, and so on.
I understand using restraint where there is a shadow of currently popular words with negative overtones (or worse). But even that restraint can be stifling. In these kinds of things, a true sense of the "temperature" of the group might be meaningful. (Not a unilaterally declared "taste of the body" without any real idea of its "tastes.")